KSA renews air links with Iraq after 27 years of break

Saudi Arabia Wednesday resumed air links with neighboring Iraq by directing flights of its low-cost carrier flynas to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, 27 years following last direct flights between the two countries.

“We worked hard to see that flynas flights to the brotherly nation of Iraq are operational as quickly as possible in order to connect the two brotherly nations economically and socially after a 27-year-long break,” flynas CEO Bandar al-Muhanna said in a statement.

The tickets on promotion for the first flights were rated $7 bar taxes.

Last direct flights between the two countries were suspended in 1990 after then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait.